Title: Eco – Handmade Solid Brick In Contemporary Sculpture
Stream: Visual Arts Practices
Presentation Type: Oral Presentation
Authors:
Ana Almeida Pinto, University of Porto, Portugal
Sofia Ponte, Universidade Europeia, Portugal
Abstract:
The demands of collaborative processes in contemporary sculpture, the current impermanence of the sculptural object, the greater need for art practices autonomy combined with the development of supplementary sustainable working methods are some of the most pressing challenges a few artists are facing today. This article reflects on the traditional manufacturing method, and architectural usage of solid bricks and its manifestations in contemporary sculpture. By doing so it aims to examine some of the poetics and complexities of the 21st century. This approach is part of a legacy of contemporary art practices, of artists such as Per Kirkeby, Jacques Kaufmann, and Cristina Gallizioli & Marco Ferrari, that seek to revitalise, appropriate and/or problematise the vernacular technology embedded in certain territories, and the living standards they represent. The collaborative art project Eco by artist Ana Almeida Pinto was born during the Covid-19 pandemics in the south of Portugal, with the aim of creating artworks through a self-sustainable circular economy system that included the handmade production of solid bricks. Two different socially engaged artworks — Aventar Gráfico (2022) and Do Monte à Avenida: Apropriações Circadianas (2022) — emerged from this process. Each was shaped by the artist and people from local communities in the city of Montemor-o-Novo and Porto and exhibited temporarily in each city. The process of making Eco, and the artworks born from it, provides an opportunity to reflect on the current meanings of ancestral production processes while contributing to a deeper understanding of contemporary sculpture.
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